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KKinde
•Created by Straegge on 4/24/2025 in #💻┃support
Kinde in Cloudflare Pages Function Middleware
I'm using a Cloudflare Pages Function as a middleware to check user authentication before loading any site assets. Using Clerk as an example, it looks kinda like this:
const clerkClient = createClerkClient({secretKey, publishableKey});
const {isSignedIn} = await clerkClient.authenticateRequest(context.request, {jwtKey});
if (!isSignedIn) // ...redirect to auth provider
However, I'm unable to figure out how to do something similar with Kinde. The Kinde node libraries don't work because the Function environment doesn't allow the necessary libraries. I found this post which offers a solution for this, https://kinde.com/blog/engineering/verifying-jwts-in-cloudflare-workers/, but Kinde doesn't pass an authorization or cookie in the request even when I'm signed in, so there is nothing to verify. Is this just because I'm not using a custom domain in Kinde? I'm confused because the underlying React app recognizes me as being signed in, so there must be some mechanism to authenticate the user. For clarity, I also don't have a custom domain in Clerk, but maybe they set cookies by default, I'm not sure.8 replies